Here is the next chapter. For future reference Tom Senior is Tom Riddle and Tom Junior is Harry Potter. Please read and review thanks, love Angel x
Cedrella had spoken to Molly after Ronald about the twins next. She was not happy that they were always labelled as bad or annoying because they enjoyed pranking and having fun. It sent the wrong kind of message. She sat down now again to write to them this time. They needed to hear the truth from her instead of some mangled version from someone ridiculous. She poured herself a cup of calming tea and got out her writing supplies to begin. Arthur was proud she was beginning to make good progress and had even learned a few things himself.
Dear Frederick and George,
Freddie and Georgie it's me, mum. I am writing first to apologise to you about what you will learn soon. I have always prided good grades because without them realistically there is so much in our world which cannot be achieved but in doing so I have failed to ever instil in you the idea that anything else could be good too. Because of my actions Percy became the monster he is today. I can say it no other way. If I had been a better and more tolerant mother he may have been a better and more tolerant son. I didn't raise him to moan and follow every single rule to the point of being obnoxious. Yes rules are there to be followed but in fairness some are there too to be broken. I know it will be a shock to hear me say this but I don't hate pranking. When Granny Cedrella showed me your quite frankly astounding report cards I cried. You got such amazing results and it made me sad to think that I may have ever given you the impression that living outside of good grades was a bad thing. It isn't. You go and live your lives the way you want to and screw anyone who says otherwise.
As Granny Cedrella said to me she mentioned something happened to me with the Slytherins and that is true but I have been getting counselling for it which has helped. Actually when my counsellor told me I was also responsible for the actions of Peter Pettigrew purely because I was a Gryffindor I immediately saw my error. Slytherin house is not vile. The members of it who harmed me are and I can see that now. I am truly sorry I ever said otherwise because that's not fair and I can see that now although it did admittedly take me a while to see it or shall I say want to see it.
In my time at school the Dark Lord Voldemort was rising to power and he had instructed his members who were in Slytherin to try very hard to recruit purebloods everywhere. He basically wanted pureblood members to be a part of his band of evil death eaters. They were instructed to first ask nicely and then do bad things. I was asked and I politely declined saying that I simply didn't have it in me to be vile or do vile things. These Slytherin members persisted and when my answer became more angry essentially they tortured me close to death using some torture spells I'd never even heard of. As a consequence of their actions I nearly died and your uncles Fabian and Gideon after whom you were named tricked these people into essentially walking through the veil of death in the Ministry of Magic and ending their lives without even using one bad spell. They said it was this act which made them true Gryffindors.
I was never prouder of my brothers in that moment. They got justice for me without casting one spell. They didn't say how they tricked the death eaters to walking through the veil just that it was painless and worked. I have never felt any regrets about that but it is only because I nearly died at their hands. Mistakenly I grew to resent and severely hate the whole of Slytherin for this heinous act which is not at all fair. Ninety percent of Slytherin was fine and in my anger and agony I blamed them all for something they didn't do. For this I am sorry and I encourage you not to do the same. Slytherin people are not to blame for the actions of the few the same as we are not to blame for the actions of Peter Pettigrew just because he was a Gryffindor member.
I am saying I am wrong and although very tough for me to admit as a true Gryffindor it takes courage to do this. If you are ever wrong admit it. Percy was very wrong indeed and he could never admit it. In fact he couldn't even see it. He spent so long invested in his studies and judging everyone else he forgot to properly live and it is why he is now a member of Hufflepuff house. They will teach him all he needs to know you can be sure of that. It was the only choice for him. He needs to eat a lot of humble pie and they shall help him in this endeavour. Yes I am bitterly disappointed in him but he is not beyond help. Whether he knows it or not this summer he will see a counsellor like me. He needs the help. We all do as a whole family.
Daddy has gotten a pay rise at work meaning that each year you can now get new robes and supplies. We won't be able to do much else you understand but it is at least something. Also as he got a rise from about seven hundred galleons to one thousand galleons we can afford to send you each twenty galleons twice a school year for Hogsmeade shopping. We will never be as rich as a family such as the Malfoys or Zabinis or something but we can at least do more now which is a relief for me. I ask you please to not hate the house of Slytherin because of what a few of its members did to me. They are not at fault and I will no longer allow them to be judged for it.
You do whatever you do that makes you the most happy. As long as you both live a happy and fulfilled life daddy and I will be happy for you. When I was younger I turned Fabian's hair blue once when he was mean to me and wouldn't turn it back for two weeks. He deserved it though. I am telling you this only so you may know that I too like pranks. I just don't like pranks which actually physically hurt others. Changing someone's appearance in some way does not count as physically hurting them in my book. Some people need some deer antlers on their head for being too stubborn and not getting the point. I know you never expected to hear me say this but I can be cool too you know. My howler supplies have mysteriously disappeared and I no longer care. As my counsellor said to me relying too heavily on howlers to punish and do my parenting for me is not a good idea. It does nothing but mortifies my children and doesn't teach them anything about how to be a good parent which is not something I want. In future if I have a problem with any of you I will either write to you like this or come up to school myself to see you.
Face to face communication cuts out all the misunderstandings which are bound to happen otherwise. Please look after yourselves and remember no matter what I am always here to talk to. I was young once and having an adult you can speak to is wonderful. Almost nothing you could ever tell me would have me disown or hate you and this I promise you. Literally unless you randomly decided to turn dark nothing would ever phase me. Ministry jobs aren't for everyone. They certainly weren't for me. I've never much spoken about this but after school I worked in J Pippins Potions in Hogsmeade where I apprenticed and became a potions mistress. I could have gotten a job teaching potions at Hogwarts but I never did because I loved working in the shop and the social aspect of it. Obviously when I married your father and started having children I needed to leave but she has always been wonderful to me and I've had discounted ingredients from her at any time I've needed them. She's even the god mother to Bill. Julia is a wonderful woman and I'm sure if you tell her you're my children she'll be delighted. Always stay true to yourselves boys and never put the key to your own happiness into the pocket of someone else.
Love always,
Mum x
She sent off the letter feeling highly relieved. Her next and final letter would go to Percy. The twins got their letter the next morning and read it with enthusiasm. They didn't cry like Ron had but left to go to an abandoned classroom to cry where others couldn't see them. They were moved by everything she had said to them and it did change the way they would live their lives from now on. Molly Weasley was becoming a changed woman and this would in turn change many things Albus Dumbledore was as of yet not aware might affect his plans for Tom Potter.